Posted on 08/13/2009 5:23:57 PM PDT by Maelstorm
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- A study finds about twice as many gay, lesbian and bisexual Californians sought mental health or substance abuse treatment last year than did heterosexuals.
The study was conducted by UCLA scientists and involved data from a survey of more than 2,000 Californians.
The researchers found 48.5 percent of gay lesbian or bisexual individuals said they participated in treatment during the past year, compared with 22.5 percent of heterosexuals. Lesbians and bisexual women were most likely to receive treatment and heterosexual men were the least likely.
"It is well known that health services utilization is greater among women generally," researcher Susan Cochran said. "Here we have shown that minority sexual orientation is also an important consideration. Lesbians and bisexual women appear to be approximately twice as likely as heterosexual women to report having received recent treatment for mental health or substance use disorders."
The researchers speculate the increased use of healthcare might be the result of higher exposure to discrimination, violence and other stressful life events.
"The pervasive and historically rooted societal pathologizing of homosexuality may contribute to this propensity for treatment by construing homosexuality and issues associated with it as mental health problems," she added.
The study appears in the journal BMC Psychiatry.
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I hope everyone checks out this link:
and this one
Gay activism is no better than global warming. It is based on lies and irrational ideas that would not be accepted in any context outside of human sexuality.
“Hey, doc, when I sat down on my sofa somehow this cucumber got pushed up into my a$$.”
Would that constitute being a pain in the a$$ to the "mob"?
Oh, the poetic justice for these very same people who voted for this imbecile O. He's their president.
Funny how the health Nazis keep telling us what we can no longer do...for our own good...and for the common good, since smoking, eating fattening foods, etc. makes us sick and makes other people have to pay for our treatment...
yet they never mention gay, male sex and the spread of not only HIV/AIDS but a host of other gay-related sicknesses.
Put on rubber boots and gloves some time and go to Craigslist and see what kind of demented people are out there “hooking up” with strangers. You’ll want to take a shower afterward.
And they have the nerve to try to tax cheeseburgers?
Yea right... Discrimination and stress cause AIDS, clamydia, yeast infections etc... What a bunch of dumbasses...
Yeah and the obvious reasons for their health problems are ignored but it can not be their sexual behavior and destructive lifestyle. Gays and Lesbians have a much shorten lifespan. Some studies have shown it to be more dangerous than smoking...umm tobacco.
They're more expensive than cigarette smokers. Maybe Oboma will just give them a pain pill and watch them die, too. After all, we can't allow one small group to hog the whole DeathCare pie, now can we?
In a previous life, I was a cab driver. One of my regulars was a wino who always seemed to be checking in or checking out of the VA Hospital in town. I often wondered how many deserving veterans were put on hold because this guy was so used to the admission procedure.
At least he had served our country once upon a time. With socialized medicine, you can multiply this guy by the 20 or 25 times as many people who have never served and will be showing up to demande their entitlement.
Further multiply this 2.2 times demand for health care by the homosexual crowd by the fact that they live about two decades less than heterosexuals and you get triple the demand over their behavior-shortened lifetimes compared to we heteros.
Oh, for cryin' out loud. Always someone else's fault. That is one of the hallmarks of addiction, whether to a substance or to a behavior. Someone else makes you take a drink or a drug for whatever your problems might be, not to mention the rest of the pathology and denial there.
I don't buy the rationale of violence against lesbians -- you don't hear about that except among themselves, as "intimate partner violence." Or fights the tough ones intitiate themselves. We had one in college who always offered to fight you if your opinion differed in a seminar class.
A wicked lifestyle produces deeper guilt and anxiety. It has very much to do with the conscience. God built something into the being of every man whereby they find the laws of God written upon their heart.
When an individual indulges in wickedness and tries to shake off the laws of God, he eventually sears the conscience. He then lives on in his sin without an operative warning device.
It is like removing the circuit breakers in your home electrical system, and running the power straight through, and continuing to increase the amperage load until you burn your house down.
Sodomites are burning their wiring! They end up with a REPROBATE (you could say a “burnt-out”) mind, that can no longer think correctly about moral, ethical, or spiritual things.
It produces anxiety overloads they can't handle, and their reprobation has cut off their understanding of what is really happening to them. They will even blame non-sodomites for their problem, saying that “discrimination” against them is a source of their their anxiety.
Non-sodomites’ mental problems can also be symptoms of a wicked life, and an overloaded, damaged, or seared conscience.
Many (not all) people under mental health care in hospitals or on psychiatrists’ lounges are people headed for reprobation of the mind through indulgence in wickedness in violation of God's laws. I would dare say a large percentage of people confined to mental institutions are in this category.
That sodomites should require twice the mental health services as non-sodomites is no surprise at all.
Albion you have that right. That has been one thing that troubles me to the core about how this issue is approached. There is no responsibility involved, the normal rules that apply to most citizens seem to be suspended when it comes to human sexuality especially in relation GLBT type lifestyles.
I have been wondering why the gay community has been silent on Obamacare. They usually make their voices heard but this time I can’t recall a single press release. Is Obamacare good for them in their perspective? How could it be when fears about AIDS databases have motivated protests in the past and Obamacare would build a nationwide database revealing such information. Plus the gay community typically has more disposable income etc. and therefore, medical insurance. If OBamacare is bad for them, why are they silent?
TO THE TUNE OF SIOUX CITY SIOUX
He left his home in Ioway
For San Francisco town
Traded in his cowboy boots
For a sequined gown
He did his nails
He did his hair
He did himself up right
Hoping that some faggot
Will nail his a** tonight
CHORUS
You faggot you
You faggot you
Ain’t nobody quite as sick
As you faggot you
"It was a one in a million shot doc. One in a million."
Maybe they recognize there is something 'not right' with themselves.
The executives said it had nothing to do with the domestic partnership inclusions.
What kind of fools do they take us for?
You know you bring up a very good point. No one dares address that question. What is the real cost of permissive sexual lifestyles like Homosexuality. It is very high.
What other studies have found is that even in the most homosexual-friendly countries of the world, these pathologies are just as pervasive. So much for their victim defense.
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